Early home treatment of childhood fevers with ineffective antimalarials is deleterious in the outcome of severe malaria

Table 2 Characteristics of subjects

	Treatment Given		Treatment Not Given		RR(95% CI)	*P
	n	%	N	%	RR(95% CI)	*P
Gender
Male	101	65.2	54	34.8	1.10 (0.91, 1.33)	0.371
Female	67	59.3	46	40.7
Diagnosis
CM	81	71.1	33	28.9	1.26 (1.05, 1.51)	0.016
SMA	87	56.5	67	43.5
Social Class
Lower	102	61.4	64	38.6	0.95 (0.79, 1.15)	0.606
Upper	66	64.7	36	35.3

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